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‘Rolls Royce’ NDR Sinfonieorchester temporarily ‘parked’ in fabulous ‘Work in Progress’ Sankt Georgen Wismar church – Concert Review NDR orchestra visits Wismar – by OTA-Berlin Constituency contributor Mr Filip van der Plas

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Concert Review Sunday 13th May 2012
Place Sankt-Georgen-Kirche 23966 Wismar
NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
Program -Schumann’s 3rd Symphony & Brahms 1st Symphony
 

The ‘Rolls Royce’ is in this case the NDR Sinfonieorchester and the venue the still being renovated huge and captivating space of the Sankt-Georgen-Kirche in the old Hansa city of Wismar in northern Germany – which unbeknown by most – [...] Continue Reading…

Jan Lisiecki Klavier – Mittwoch, 18.04.12 – 18.30 Uhr | Kleiner Saal – Konzerthaus Berlin am Gendarmenmarkt

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
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Mittwoch, 18.04.12 18.30 Uhr   Kleiner Saal – Konzerthaus Berlin am Gendarmenmarkt
Jan Lisiecki Klavier
Johann Sebastian Bach Präludium und Fuge fis-Moll BWV 883 (“Wohltemperiertes Klavier”, II. Teil)
 Ludwig van Beethoven Sonate Fis-Dur op. 78 Franz Liszt Trois etudes de concert
 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy “Variations sérieuses” d-Moll op. 54

 

Der Kanadier Jan Lisiecki hat Klavierunterricht seit dem Alter von 5 Jahren – an der Universität Mount Royal Conservatory.

Mit [...] Continue Reading…

Berlinale – Restored ‘October: Ten Days That Shook the World’ – by Sergei Eisenstein – review by Filip vd Plas

Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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Yesterday, ‘ARTE’ television showed a live performance made on February 10th, as part of the 2012 Berlinale International Film festivals reconstructed version of OCTOBER/OKTJABR , made in the then USSR in 1928, directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

The musical score was based on the original as composed by Edmund Meisel – the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Frank Strobel. [...] Continue Reading…

Live Classical Piano in ‘Berlin Klavierabend’ with Latvian violinist Monta Wermann- this coming Friday 17th February evening at 2030 hrs– Piano Salon Christophori

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
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TALA GAISMA – FERNES LICHT
Violin – Monta Wermann
Viola – Avishai Chameides
Piano– Sorin Creciun
Programme
Mozart – Duet for Violin and Viola G-Dur
Bach – Sonate for Violine and Piano
Ernst Bloch – Nigun aus Baal Shem for solo Violin
Peteris Vasks – 1. Concerto for Violin and Chamber orchestra

This coming Friday the 17th February at 2030hrs there is a concerto for violin, viola, piano and chamber orchestra [...] Continue Reading…

Live Johannes Brahms in Berlin “Ein deutsches Requiem” / “German Requiem” at Radial System -with Rundfunkchor Berlin directed by Simon Halsey in original Brahms score for two Pianos, soloists and choir

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

 

Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” for vocal Solists, mixed Choir and 2 pianos after the original score by Brahms
Musical Direction - Phillip Moll  - 2Pianists -   Phillip Moll and Philip Mayers
Soprano Marlis Petersen
Bariton Konrad Jarnot
with   Rundfunkchor Berlin – Conductor    Simon Halsey
Artistic assistance for rehersals from -   Davide Camplani und Claudia de Serpa Soares
Staging  by  Brad Hwang
Lights    Jörg Bittner and Thomas Herda
Brahms’ Requiem is [...] Continue Reading…

Live Classical Piano in ‘Berlin Klavierabend’ with Daniel Seroussi – this coming Friday 2nd February evening at 2030 hrs– Piano Salon Christophori

Sunday, February 5th, 2012
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‘Klavierabend’ with
Daniel Seroussi
Schumann/Liszt -Widmung
Schubert/Liszt – Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schubert:
Allegro – Andantino – Scherzo: Allegro vivace – un poco piu lento
Rondo: Allegretto
F. Chopin – Ballade no.4 in f-moll, op. 52 & Klaviersonate in A-Dur, D.959

Schumann – Carnaval , op. 9

This coming Friday evening 10th February at 2030hrs, another great young pianist, [...] Continue Reading…

Live Chamber Music in Berlin – Violin + Piano – The sisters Birringer, Lea and Esther – this coming Thursday the 19th at 2030 hrs – Piano Salon Christophori

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Chamber Music on a grande scale with……
Lea Birringer – Violin
Esther Birringer – Piano
Mozart:    Sonate KV 305 A-Dur
Beethoven: Sonate op.12 Nr.3 Es-Dur
Hindemith:     Sonate op.11 Nr.1 Es-Dur
Respighi:      Sonate h-moll

Ottorino Respighi [1879 - 1936] – foto from Wikipedia

Lea will play a Violine  made by  Gianbattista Ceruti,
Cremona, circa 1800.
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www.estherbirringer.com
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January 27th means….Happy Birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart! – Mozart in Berlin – by contributor Mr Filip v d Plas

Friday, January 27th, 2012
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – baptized as – wait for it – Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on the 27th January 1756 in Salzburg Austria – so Happy Birthday to Mister Mozart.

Below I have written a short account of Mozart’s journey late in his life to Berlin and follow that with the major part of a short biography of hime as [...] Continue Reading…

“The Chopin Project” with Eugene Mursky, Chopin’s complete works on historical pianos of Erard and Pleyel – Live Classical Piano in Berlin with Georgy Gromov piano and – Tomorrow Tuesday the 24th at 2030 hrs – Piano Salon Christophori

Monday, January 23rd, 2012
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The Chopin Projekt with Eugene Mursky

Played on historical instruments made by Erard und Pleyel

* Rondo c-moll, op. 1 (1825)
* Sonate Nr. 1 c-moll, op. 4 (1828)
Allegro Maestoso
Menuetto
Larghetto
Finale – Presto
* Drei Nocturnes op. 9 (b-moll, Es-Dur, H-Dur) (1830 – 32)
* Vier Mazurken op. 6 (fis-moll, cis-moll, E-Dur, es-moll) (1830 – 32)
* Polonaise As-Dur (1821)
* Polonaise As-Dur, op. 53 “Heroique” [...] Continue Reading…

Live Classical Piano in Berlin with Georgy Gromov piano and – this coming Thursday the 19th at 2030 hrs – Piano Salon Christophori

Monday, January 16th, 2012
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Georgy Gromov
Plays the Piano music of Ludwig van Beethovens

The Sonata for  Cello  and Piano number II
Cellist Nikolai Solonovich - First violinist of the  ’Moscow Soloists’
and  Pianist Georgy Gromov

Dear Friends of the salon concerts, I would like to invite for the next week to an extraordinary concert this coming Thursday January the 19th at 2030 hrs – Beethoven Live in [...] Continue Reading…

Today + Tomorrow at the Gendarmenmarkt Concert Haus – Alexei Volodin piano, Lukasz Borowicz conducts the ‘Konzerthausorchester’ – Berlin Live Classical music at a high level in Berlin – Concert Review – by contributor Filip van der Plas

Saturday, January 14th, 2012
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As a first live concert I have attended this year – this was a perfect choice and it is repeated this evening and tomorrow afternoon.
Take my advice- GO!  You will not be dissapointed!
It consisted of a very well thought-out program of the Berlin ‘Koncerthausocherster’ and was both diversified and yet culturally -or if you like ‘Polishly’ -linked and called simply ‘Chopiniana’.
The orchestra [...] Continue Reading…

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